Time card



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Patented Get. 21, 1924.

UNITED STTE' J' ARTHUR MINCE, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

TIME GAR-D.

Applicationfiled April 14, 1920. Serial No. 373,683.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J ARTHUR Mincrr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Time Cards, of which I declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to employees daily time cards and is particularly adapted for use in connection with cost accounting sys' tems.

An object of my invention is to provide a record card of convenient size for each workman upon which all the necessary data may be written or printed in columnsand spaces provided therefor to comprise a complete account of the various jobs making up lns days work.

Another object is to provide a card ofthis nature for each day of the week, each card having a tab upon which may be written a total of items of a similar nature appearing on the card, the tabs of the successive days of the week being arranged to show one beside the other to thereby enable a convenient and rapid summation for the entire week.

Further objects of this invention relate to economies of manufacture. and details of construction as will hereinafter appear from the detailed description to follow. I accomplish the objects of my invention in one instance by the devices and means described in the following specification, but it is evident that the same may be varied widely without departing from the scope of the invention as pointed out in the appended claims. A structure constituting one embodiment of my invention, which may be the preferred, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming a part thereof, in which:

The single figure of the drawing represents a series of cards and carbon duplicates, the top card with its duplicate being turned down to expose to, view the card of the succeeding day.

The top card5 of the series is shown having vertical lines 6 dividing it into columns and horizontal lines 7 dividing these columns into spaces, also other horizontal lines 8 at the top of the card to form appropriate heading spaces. Certain of the s aces formed by the intersection of the vertlcal and horizontal lines are shown subdivided by other vertical and horizontal'lines. In the case of the column at the left hand sidejof the card which is designated, Assignment the subdivisions include items such as Operation l o.,? Quantity of pieces'finished, Order No., Day ratev in hours and tenths of. an hour during which the employee was engaged at each particular job. To the right of the clock record are other spaces, which, as shown, include such as Piece work 0. K., Elapsed time, Amt. earned and Order posted. Across the top of the card is'shown the employee s number, name, department number and the date.

At the right hand side of each card there is shown a tab which, if desired, may be folded back temporarily for the sake of convenience in handling the card. The card for use on the first dayof the week, which, in the particular case, illustrated, is Thursday, 'has a tab 10 of minimum length; the next card, marked Friday has a similar tab 11 but of approximately twice the length, while the following card has a tab of approximately three times the length of the first card, and so on through the series.

Thus each card of the series is provided tab 13 of the last card of the series, in,

the case illustrated, the Vv ednesday card, is given additional length in order to pro ,videa space in which may be recorded the total number of hours worked and the total amount earned for the week. The lower portion of this tab is accordingly shown with the designation Total, Hrs, and Amt. If desired for the-purpose of obs taining a duplicate record, a duplicate card 14 may be provided for each day and suitable well known means provided for duplieating the record on this card as for example by inserting betweenthe two cards a sheet of carbon paper or by coating the back of the original card with carbon. The duplicate card, being for reference purpose only,'is-illustrated as devoid of a tab.

The manner of using cards such as described above is as follows: The Workman at the beginning of the day is provided With a suitable card for that day bearing his number, name, department number and date, Appropriate data may also be entered in the lower assignment space relating to the first b of the day. The card is 111- serted inasuitable machine WlllCll prints atthe bottom of the card a record 16 show-v ing the time he began .WOIk. In this instance hereported for. Work on time, namel at the zero hour. at which time he be an ork on order number 996. Simultaneously with thestamping of the clock record a narrow strip 18 is cut from the lower left hand. edge, the purpose of which is to limit the distance the card. may drop in V the machine for the next record as is Well known with machines of this type. At. the completion of the first job and the beginning of the second, the Workman again inserts his card in the machine and makes a second timerecord, the successive records.

being properly imprinted in the spaces pro vided therefor. Thus at the completion of the day, the exact time at Which the Work- .man began his days Work and the exact number of hours and fractions thereof Which he Worked at each job or order may be found by simply reading the clock records.

a For example, he Worked at thefirst job 2.5

hours, on the second job three hours, etc.--

propriate spaces on the last tab. The above arrangement results not only in great convenience to the foreman and the Workman as v Welles obtaining an exact record of data nec essary to the computation of the Workmans Wages and the cost of articles manufactured bnt 'a n immense amount of labor is savedin gathering together and summing up the in dividual items from which are calculated the ivorkmans Weekly Wagesand the total numberof hours'per Week he Worked.

[The har l s rat s o a nv t t n im res i n 20 at the p h ch Was when it! rang is aft the noon lunch period. It might be mentioned that an allowance for then'oon lunch period'is provided for by stopping the time printing machine during that period.

' It Will, of course, be understood that it not essential to the invention that the tabs be of the particular size and shape illustrated or thatthey be located along the right hand edges of the cards. Indeed, they may be of any desired size. and shape and be attached to any one of the four sides of th cards so long as the items they carry appear in order to facilitate computation when the cards are properly arranged.

Inasmuch as the invention herein disclosed is susceptible of various other, embodiments and as various changes might be made in the embodiment set forth, it is to be understood that all matter described above or shown in the accompanying drawing to be interpreted as illustrative only and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: v

1. A time card for use in cost accounting systems having lines dividing it into sections appropriately designated for receiving data relating to each of a plurality of jobs and having a tab-attached to the side thereof designated to receive a totalof items of a similar nature appearingjin the said sections and adapted to be positioned adjacent the tabs on similar cards.

A series of time cards for'use in cost accounting systems each having lines dividing itintosections appropriately designated for receiving datar-elating to each of a plurality of'jobs'and each having. a tab attached at the same side thereof adapted to receive a total of items appearing in said sections, the tab portion of each successive card of the series appearing below the tab of the preceding card whereby the items' are arranged in a 7 thereof designated to receive a total of items of a similar nature appearing in said sections, the tab of each succeeding card from e first. in the nam ng pro r sively longer than the preceding tab p whereby items of a similar nature appearing on said abs a e arran d n m s, hen th cards are superposed and the summationof sai tem h eby fa ili a e In testimony whereof, I my signature. 

